Our Most Remarkable Ability

by: Jennie S. Bev

I’m reading a remarkable part motivational-part psychology book by Daniel Gilbert entitled Stumbling on Happiness. Unlike any other books on happiness, it doesn’t preach nor coach its readers to be happy and doesn’t include how-to pointers on how to achieve it within a particular period of time.

With a lot of style and knowledge, it is a book that carefully slices off the multiple layers of a humane phenomenon so-called “happiness.” Yes, it slices off what it really is scientifically and how it is one reality that we “stumble” upon day by day.

Sometimes, “happiness” cannot be expressed in words and cannot be understood in entirety. Thanks to Gilbert, we have an opportunity to really look within and without on what constitutes “true” happiness. I have never read any book of this topic of this caliber, which explains in-depth about this often overlooked and oversimplified feeling.

Happiness, after all, is the ultimate goal of most people, including you and me. A great book is a fast-track door to a new journey to live a fuller, better, and more meaningful life for us and others.

Be happy, my friends, and be remarkable. Settle not with mediocrity, because we are given with the ability to imagine and make things happen.